Only 308 feet away! Witness the shortest bye home run in history

The Red Sox continue to mentor Ceddanne Rafaela in the art of pulling, which fits in with the architectural character of Fenway Park. When he hit a home run against the Angels in the first two games of the series, he flew over the "Green Monster" towering projectile in the left field. But in the lucky play of Thursday morning (Wednesday afternoon local time in Boston), Rafaela abandoned his new strategy and made an unexpected achievement - his 94 mph shot flew along the right field sideline, and the Red Sox rest area burst into a chorus of coaches: "Pesky! "

"Pesky" refers to the late legendary Johnny Pesky. The right field perimeter marker (at the end of the tight turn) is just 302 feet from home plate. Peskey is rumored to have hit the pole or circled it in part of his Fenway Six during his career. Only a handful of major league players hit home runs here each year.

Rafaela had a flawless opportunity: a 308-foot two-pointer in the next nine innings ended the tie and helped his team narrow 11-9 win over the Angels to avoid a sweep. This is the shortest home run by a Red Sox player at Fenway since Statcast tracked the data in 2015, and the shortest goodbye home run in the Major League in the Statcast era.

"I thought to myself, 'If it's in bounds, it's going to be a bang,' so I prayed that it wouldn't go out of bounds," Rafaela said, "and I was ecstatic to have won a crucial victory all day long." For the 30-34 Red Sox, the win was significant: they were nearly swept away from their previous two one-point losses (17 league leads this season) and would be embarrassed to go to New York (against the Yankees, the top of the American League East Conference starting Friday).

When starter Lucas Giolito dropped four points in the opening game, the flight to New York looked gloomy. But the Red Sox immediately returned five points in the first inning. Even though Jolito lost two more points in the second game and exited, the team still fought back.

"It's a tough battle," trailblazer Jarren Duran described, "like a double play-off." Pride in team resilience – the lead is equalised, the lead is equalized, and the lead is equalized and the victory is finally won. The Red Sox chased two points in four games to tie 7-7; After seven games, he equalized 8-8; At 9-8 after eight innings, Rafael Devers hit a midfield band to hit the netter to equalize again. The previous inefficient batting of the penalty lap (such as 13 hits and 11 hits on Tuesday) finally turned around.

"Devers hits the ball through the defence," noted head coach Alex Cora, "not to discourage a strong swing, but the game situation will dominate the decision." After Devers equalised, Cooper Criswell sealed his first half-game of the game (after three defeats).

With the next game in the ninth inning, Abraham Toro's midfield hits the ground running. Rafaela then hit Brock Burke's 86.9-mile speed ball to send the group home. "Whenever there is a fly ball like this, the rest area yells 'Pesky,'" Duran described, "and it's usually badly out of bounds, but it came true." I squeezed to the railing to confirm the landing point - God Bless Red Socks. "